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Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algeria-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work has had a profound impact upon literary theory and continental philosophy. His best known work is Of Grammatology. Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in El-Biar (near Algiers), then French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family, the third of five children. His parents named him Jackie, supposedly after a Hollywood actor, though he would later... full article at wikipedia

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